It's not fancy, but here it is...my first real woodworking project ever! Well, besides that cutting board in the 7th grade anyway It's not totally finished yet, so please excuse the lack of a lid (finishing it tonight).
This is a simple little jewelry box for my wife, who doesn't own/wear much jewelry at all.
I had to make this out of a cherry board salvaged from the scrap pile at an acquaintance's cabinet shop since there's no non-Borg retail hardwood where I live. I had just *barely* enough wood, considering that after I sawed out the split down the middle (!), I was basically left with just a little 3" square piece. It was pretty stressful to say the least, considering I had no extra wood in the case of a screw-up It was a fun challenge though to design the box around what the board offered, split and all.
Anyway, hope you all won't laugh too much at a newbie's efforts (click the picture to see full-size):
Oh and thanks to all of you for the great help I found here while searching through old threads on finishing (shellac over BLO), et cetera!